Subject: Re: [vserver] Chrome on a vserver
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:28:36 +0100

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:27:53PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:41 +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 February 2010 "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
wrote:

> > > Hello, all. Has anyone gotten the Google Chrome browser to work
> > > in a VServer? No need to spend a lot of time on this. We are
> > > prepared to go do battle with it but, if someone else has solved
> > > it already, it would save us the time. It looks like its default
> > > configuration insists in writing to /dev/shm. Am I correct to
> > > assume that is a very bad idea in a vserver guest? Thanks - John

> > Would it help to symlink /dev/shm to somewhere under /tmp (assuming
> > /tmp is tmpfs)? Otherwise you could add a tmpfs for /dev/shm in
> > fstab of your vserver's configuration.

> > Bruno

> Simply fake it with no functionality? I guess I can try. I'll let you
> know how I fare. Thanks - John

I assume google chrome uses the /dev/shm for some kind
of inter process communications, so it might be a good
idea (performance wise) to actually make that a tmpfs

best,
Herbert